Looking at Kushina beside him, Uya felt all the troubles and fatigue from his previous training vanish, and he couldn't help but turn around and gently hug her.
"This is exactly what I want to protect..."
Uya murmured to himself, "No matter who it is, even if it's Princess Kaguya Otsutsuki, they can't take away everything I want to protect."
Therefore, no matter how difficult the road ahead may be, Uya will walk it steadfastly. If he is not strong enough, he will become stronger, surpass the peak of this world, until... he can protect everything he wants to protect.
"What happened? All of a sudden..."
Kushina's cheeks flushed a lovely rosy blush as she looked at Uya, who had suddenly hugged her, with slight surprise.
"Nothing."
Uya released her and smiled slightly at her.
Kushina pouted slightly, then suddenly stepped forward and kissed Uya on the cheek before turning around with a smile.
"I made some dessert, come and have a taste."
"Good."
Uya watched her retreating figure tenderly and followed behind her.
After resting for a while, Uya resumed his training. For Uya now, sleep was no longer a very important thing.
His Sage Body allowed him to feel almost no fatigue, and as for his mind, Uya's powerful soul also made it difficult for him to feel tired.
Having completed half of the Second Stage of the Soul Secret Technique, which was still halfway through, it was much easier than Uya had imagined, and the difficulty level was incomparable to the first half.
The reason why it was said that it was half completed, and how it was determined that it was half completed, was because Uya had already constructed the prototype of the Soul Space.
The Soul Space is also known as the Mental Space.
It has nothing to do with Space-Time Ninjutsu, nor with spatial power; it is simply the purest power of spirit and soul.
The Tsukuyomi cast by Uchiha Itachi constructs Uchiha Itachi's Mental Space, which is similar in essence to the Soul Space that Uya wanted to construct. However, Obito Uchiha's Kamui is not in this category. Kamui is a physical alternate dimension, belonging to the pure space category, and has almost no connection with the spirit.
Both can be called alternate dimensions, but one is a main spirit and the other is a main space; they are fundamentally different.
The Soul Space belongs to the former category. It has no physical form; it is merely a space between imagination and reality, somewhat similar to the dream world, but slightly different because it can also influence reality.
If the pure fantasy world is zero, the real world is one hundred, and the dream world is fifty, then the Soul Space is seventy-five, which lies between fifty and one hundred.
The difficulty lies here: how to strike the right balance, preventing it from becoming substantial while also preventing it from becoming too weak.
In the endless darkness.
This is the depths of Uya's soul, or you could say his spiritual ocean.
Here, a semi-transparent bubble emitting a faint white light appeared, and within this bubble, Uya's figure appeared slightly ethereal as he stood there, head bowed in deep thought.
This is the prototype of the Soul Space that Uya constructed.
"Certainly!"
Raising his head and looking around, Uya's gaze was like a dazzling starry sky. His soul power surged, connecting with his Chakra, gradually making this illusory world real.
Below appeared the earth, and above appeared a starry sky.
However, at this moment, Uya shook his head slightly, controlling the starry sky above to dissipate, and simply began to construct the earth.
It can't be too realistic, nor too unrealistic; Uya has almost completely mastered the balance. He can now fully construct the Soul Space, and only the final thread remains.
This final step is to completely merge Uya's soul with this Soul Space. This last step is also the most troublesome, because this Soul Space was originally conceived within the soul. Now, to make it completely merge with the soul without any distinction between primary and secondary elements requires extremely strong control.
But this wasn't too difficult for Uya.
Uya's soul is too strong, far stronger than that of ordinary people, and Uya's control is also incredibly powerful, far stronger than Orochimaru's!
Orochimaru tried countless times to create the Soul Space that could devour the reincarnated souls, but for Uya, it didn't even take half a year. In fact, Uya completed this final step almost instantly!
Outside the bubble, darkness continuously poured into its interior, eventually turning it into a blank space. The bubble itself became almost solid, no longer emitting a dim white light.
Its edges seem to be completely connected to the blank space outside, and the concept of a boundary has disappeared.
"That completes it..."
Seeing this, Uya breathed a sigh of relief. He had been extremely careful from the very beginning with his soul-related Ninjutsu, not wanting to make any mistakes.
Silently, Uya's consciousness withdrew from the Soul Space and returned to reality. The body that had been sitting cross-legged there slowly opened its eyes.
Looking at the meteorite placed in front of him, radiating a strange aura and power, Uya reached out and grabbed it, then suddenly squeezed it tightly with his fingers.
Click!
The meteorite shattered inch by inch in Uya's hands, but its power surged into Uya's body in an instant!
Then, Uya closed his eyes, and his consciousness returned to the Soul Space once again.
A surge of purple Chakra is pouring into this space, seemingly trying to forcefully break free of its constraints and shatter it completely.
But after Uya snorted coldly, his mental power pressed down, causing the purple Chakra to tremble suddenly. Almost instantly, it was forcibly suppressed by Uya, shrinking and condensing in front of Uya, finally turning into a light purple sphere that looked like glass.
The purpose of constructing a Soul Space is to allow Chakra to enter here and make direct contact with the soul, rather than indirectly through mental power.
"What comes next..."
Looking at the purple sphere in front of him, which was suppressed by his mental power and could not release even a trace of energy, Uya's eyes flickered slightly, and then he released a little of the suppression.
A wisp of purple Chakra instantly dissipated and spread out in Setsuna.
Although it was only a wisp, it instantly enveloped this almost boundless Soul Space. Because the Soul Space is not a physical space, the concept of spatial distance does not exist there.
Click!!
As the purple Chakra dissipated, Uya's Soul Space seemed to tremble slightly, but Uya's face showed no panic; instead, it held a hint of joy. (To be continued.)